Athena Unbound
Subtitle: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2023-03-28
Place of publication: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Language: eng
Format: Ebook
ISBN-13: 9780262373968
Copyright date: 2023
First sentence: “The best is the enemy of the good” is an aphorism purloined by Voltaire from an Italian source.
Notes: Open access PDF
Table of contents: label: Introduction: Snatching the Good from the Jaws of the Best
title: 1; label: 1 Some Knowledge Wants to Be Free
title: 13; label: 2 The Variety of Authors and Their Content
title: 39; label: 3 The Open-­Access Problem
title: 59; label: 4 Information on Wings: The History of Open Access
title: 93; label: 5 The Professoriate and Open Access
title: 139; label: 6 The Digital Disseminators
title: 179; label: 7 Alexandria in the Cloud: Promises and Pitfalls of Global Access
title: 201; label: 8 An Intellectual Aquifer: The Bulletin Board Goes Global
title: 233; label: 9 Finding What We Need: Searching and Filtering
title: 253; label: 10 Too Much Content?
title: 281; label: Conclusion: Good Enough—­Open Access Meets the Real World
title: 307; label: Acknowledgments
title: 325; label: Notes
title: 327; label: Index
title: 397